A basic problem is many people do not understand how much money people make.
I know a auto worker and his wife, also an auto worker, who consider themselves one of the working poor. The make $160,000 between them and do not understand that they are in the top 10% of taxpayers.
By the way they claim they have no savings because they are the overtaxed poor.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and governmnet to gain ground.

Thomas Jefferson